Resignation: Technology is uncontrollable, government intervention always has bad unforeseen consequences, and risks are manageable without government.

Regulation: Risks are manageable with the assistance of democratic oversight and management.

Relinquishment: Risks are so enormous and unknowable, and regulatory institutions so flawed, that human enhancement should be banned.

Libertarian Transhumanists

Technoprogressives

Left-wing Bioconservatives

Right-wing Bioconservatives

The Equality Challenge of Enhancement Technology

Market Accessand Legal Equality Enough: If legal equality is guaranteed and enhancement technologies are available in the market, social equality is irrelevant and government should do nothing to create a more equal society.

Procreative Liberty: Trust parents to act in kids best interests, and let them buy germinal choice in the market.

Procreative Liberty, Equality and Beneficence: Trust parents to act in kids’ best interests, stop them if they don’t, give them equal access to germinal choice technology, and encourage them to create children with the best life opportunities.

LimitedProcreative Liberty: Reproductive rights, but not extended to germinal choice and reproductive technology.

Procreative Liberty Trumped by Religious Right: Reproductive rights trumped by religious prohibitions or the need for radical population reduction.

Ecological Protection

Free Market Green: The market can solve all ecological problems.

TechnoGaian: A combination of judicious regulation and ecologically-oriented technologies can prevent and remediate ecological damage. Openness to the cautious use of geoengineering as a partial mitigation of climate change is an example of a technogaian approach.

Left Ecology: Technologies developed by patriarchal, capitalist systems need to be banned and those systems changed.